Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bermondsey, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE IX— FOOD AND DRUGS.
Articles submitted for Analysis. | Total Samples Taken. | Number Genuine | Number Adulterated. | Percentages of Articles Adulterated. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Apple Jelly | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Beef Brawn | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Beef Fat | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Beef Suet (Ariston) | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Black Currant Jam | 4 | 3 | 1 | 25 0 |
Black Currant, anil Apple Jam | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Blackberry and Apple Jam | 1 | — | 1 | 100.0 |
Butter | 108 | 104 | 4 | 3.7 |
Cane Syrup | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Camphorated Oil | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Cheese | 6 | 6 | — | — |
Coarse Oatmeal | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Cocoa | 26 | 26 | — | — |
Coffee | 7 | 7 | — | — |
Cod Liver Oil | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Condensed Milk | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Custard Powder | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Dripping | 86 | 78 | 8 | 9.3 |
Damson Jam | 3 | 3 | — | — |
Damson and Apple Jam | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Epsom Salts | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Fine Oatmeal | 1 | 1 | — | —. |
Fish Paste | 2 | — | — | |
Flour | 4 | 4 | — | — |
Frying Fat | 2 | — | — | |
Gooseberry Jam | 5 | 5 | — | — |
Greengage Jam | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Ground Ginger | 2 | — | — | |
Honey Sugar | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Lard | 16 | 16 | — | — |
Lemonade Crystals | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Lemonade Powder | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Lucca Oil | 1 | 1 | — | 50.0 |
Maize Semolina | 2 | 1 | 1 | 60.0 |
Malt Vinegar | 28 | 25 | 3 | 10.7 |
Margarine | 73 | 72 | 1 | 1.3 |
Milk (Skimmed) | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Milk | 484 | 377 | 107 | 22.1 |
Makacake | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Medium Oatmeal | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Mustard | 6 | 5 | 1 | 16.2 |
Nut Lard | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0 |
Oatmeal Stout | 2 | 2 | — | — |
Peach Jam | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Pepper | 42 | 41 | 1 | 2.3 |
Plum Jam | 8 | 8 | — | — |
Plum and Apple Jam | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Prepared Groats | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Raspberry Jam | 6 | 5 | 1 | 16.2 |
Raspberry and Gooseberry Jam | l | 1 | — | — |
Red Plum Jam | 5 | 1 | — | — |
Rice | 5 | 5 | — | — |
Salmon and Shrimp Paste | 2 | — | — | |
Sausage | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Sausage Meat | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Self Raising Flour | 7 | 6 | 1 | 14.2 |
Shredded Suet | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Soda Salicylate | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Strawberry Jam | 1 | — | 1 | 100.0 |
Sugarline | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Sypgar | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Tapioca | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Tea-sweetener | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Tea-ola | 1 | — | 1 | 1000 |
Tea tablets | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Vi. Cocoa | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Vinegar | 85 | 70 | 9 | 10.5 |
White Pepper | 3 | 3 | — | — |
1070 | 928 | 142 | 13.2 |